Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle
Final

Rank
Lane
Name
Nationality
Time
Notes
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5
Pieter van den Hoogenband
Netherlands
48.17
-
-
4
Roland Mark Schoeman
South Africa
48.23
-
-
8
Ian Thorpe
Australia
48.56
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4
1
Ryk Neethling
South Africa
48.63
-
5
3
Filippo Magnini
Italy
48.99
-
6
7
Duje Draganja
Croatia
49.23
-
7
2
Salim Iles
Algeria
49.30
-
7
6
Andrey Kapralov
Russia
49.30
-

Question: How did Ian Thorpe perform compared to Ryk Neethling in the 2004 Summer Olympics Men's 100 metre freestyle?
Answer: Australia's Ian Thorpe edged out Ryk Neethling with 48.56 and clinched a bronze medal by 0.07 of a second.